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They replied, “If you will be a servant to this people today, and will serve them, and answer them with good words, then they will be your servants forever.”
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ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. They said. Hebrew “he said.” The transcribers, probably not understanding what they wrote, frequently make singular for plural verbs. So verse 21, “They came,” instead of he came. Some MSS. and the ancient versions are correct. Kennicott.—Yield. Hebrew “serve.” By the submission of one day he might have acquired the kingdom. Great attention is requisite at first. Tacitus (Hist. iv.) represents Vespasian, Novo principatu suspensum, & vultus quoque ac sermones omnium circumspectantem.
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